L’Indépendance du Brésil Irrévérences cinématographiques et télévisuelles contemporaines by Erika Thomas

“…The second came out in the democratic context and is the movie of Carla Camurati, Carlota Joaquina 1995 and the telenovela of Carlos Lombardi O quinto dos Inferno 2002.…”
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Uzak, or the unbearable lightness of the ordinary by Andrea Pavoni

“…The text explores the notion of urban atmosphere, its ordinary rhythm, and the debilitating effects that it might have on the bodies that breathe through it, by looking at Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s third movie, and first international success, Uzak [2002]. In the first two sections, the theoretical background is laid out, both presenting a ‘tensional’ concept of atmosphere and proposing the employment of the notion of ‘ordinary’ as a way to explore how atmospheres unfold in everyday life. …”
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